Elocution
Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone.
History
In Western classical rhetoric, elocution was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, which was the art of delivering speeches. Orators were trained not only on proper diction, but on the proper use of gestures, stance, and dress. (Another area of rhetoric, elocutio, was unrelated to elocution and, instead, concerned the style of writing proper to discourse.)
Elocution emerged as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. One of its important figures was Thomas Sheridan, actor and father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Thomas Sheridan's lectures on elocution, collected in Lectures on Elocution (1762) and his Lectures on Reading (1775), provided directions for marking and reading aloud passages from literature. Another actor, John Walker, published his two-volume Elements of Elocution in 1781, which provided detailed instruction on voice control, gestures, pronunciation, and emphasis.
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Allocution
by: Diary Of DreamsWhen the sweetest voice is murdered in this stubborn
and precaucious world
When the glimpses go and the stare remains
When the moment dies and eternity prevails
When the single sound becomes a lasting tone
What was it all good for
If you give it up now
If you lay down now to rest
If you stop the fighting
What was it all good for
If you give it up now
If you lay down now to rest
If you stop the fighting
What was it all good for
When four seasons slash and only one is left
When all the movements of this world end up to be just
When all this tears we cry would gather to the flood
And when it hurts you feel the pain in every single
bone
What was it all good for
What was it all good for
If you give it up now
If you lay down now to rest
If you stop the fighting
What was it all good for
If you give it up now
If you lay down now to rest
If you stop the fighting
What was it all good for